The Charley V. Wootan Award, established in 2004, is presented for the outstanding paper in the field of policy and organization. It honors the Director of the Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University System, from 1976 to 1993. Active in TRB for many years, he served as Chairman of the TRB Executive Committee in 1983 and held the positions of Group and Council Chair in the Technical Activities Division. The names of the award recipients and the titles of their papers follow.

2018
HAMISH CAMPBELL; Who Will Own and Have Propriety Over Our Automated Future? Considering Governance of Ownership to Maximize Access, Efficiency, and Equity in Cities

2016
ERIC A. MORRIS, JEFFREY R. BROWN, and BRIAN D. TAYLOR; Negotiating a Financial Package for Freeways: How California’s Collier–Burns Highway Act Helped Pave the Way for the Era of the American Interstate Highway